New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-30
LITERARY NOTES.

at would be curious TO pursue says The Londoh
specator, the reason why the blight Of narticulate
ness falls upon many Of the best wSters Of this
agen Yes 1t would be curious to pursue the reasons
and not in the least difficult to find them.
new version Of Don ouxote" is on its way to
the public Mr. II. f. Watts is the translator:
and Mr. Ouarltch Will bring out the $50 copies In
fuo quarto volumes Every word Of the original VIII
be translated II possible, by corresponding English
word; IT not possible, by an English equivalent or
ANALOGOUS word, with neIthor slavish adherence to
letter caprciOus preference Tor what may DC
thought to be the spirit
A crltlcal " Life" of Francis Bacon is in course OF
prepara ion by the Rev. Edward c. Tonne The second
volume Of his work will be complete hand book oil
the Bacon discussion and Will demonstrate
the absurdity OF the delnsion that Bacon either dd
wrto or could have written the plays and poems OF
Shakespeare A third volume Will be- a critical Llic'
Of Shake pears
Mr. James Russell Lowell will contribute several
papers to The Atlantic" during the coming year
NJ kasdagi, a Greek gentleman has rendered all
paradise Lost" into Greek and Is said TO have
performed his task with Surprising fidelity to the
original.
Toistoi's Russian Proprietor with some Other
carly stories have been translated by Mr. Dole and
will be brought out Immediately 10y T. \. tfo"cH
d Co. They viii publish st the Same time a volume
Of talc- by another realistic Russian writer, Nla.hf
horoiculo
Mr. nipkins's book on Musical Instruments IS
almost ready fol publication The "oiA. which vii
con,i, OF fifty plates n chrome TYPOGRAPHY OF afc and
famou. musical IN ,rumcnts with Introduction and c
scrptiyc notc- has been the subI,c Of nue.. pains
taxing care at the hands OF the MscmiAaus
\ valued cores poudcnt writes TO 1llt IW"t>i
81 notice that ~. :. r. smith, tho .utAol Of 'Ny
Country, lis of Thee, not long agor"ad poem at The
celebration Of the huhdicdih birthday oi seth DAVIS
tho veteran hoolma,ici, Of Nc"fou, Ma. Tho ~
cdent remind, ne Of another which uay interest your
readers, some year, ago haI ihr pleasure OF lunch
ing Win Oliver Wendell Holmes. lie was "a fan How
of spirits and need say, entertained The company
to the top Of their bent suddenly he remarked Win
carnc,tnrs., Il dining lat evening - IN parry
Of old college friends ana among th"m was tie man VITO
wrote the most popular poem ever produced In America
and vet don't behave Won toll 10 whom refer
Whcrcupon one OF the company quoted from one Of the
DOCTORS own famous after dinner poems these ln"5 =
Here comes a young fellow Of excellent p.th
Fac tr.cd to conceal him by naming MN ohlih
Whcreupun the doctor laughed and owned up smith,
the author OF My Country, It's of Thee was one Of
his class mates. And now pray tell why have We
heard little Of smith, Is that immortal patriotic
lyric all that has done that Is worth vhlc When
he pcnned i, did he strike tweiyc7
An Encshnan writes thus concerning ye1ed
question to Tic Spectator - There IS story ioId
Of the lac Dean stanley to the eec that day when
travelling ia Rumania, he addressed small peasant
lad whom he met board river steamboat, IN Lain
What his words | know not probably in English
prOnunci on be remarked on the wcaihcr. Anyway
the lad turned to him after brief pause Of meditation,
and thus addressed him: 'prmnm disco tuin loqn"fe
his shows Of II needed that different nations
speak Latin when they can, so differently, that each
the Other barbarous B what then III 80, why
not p as Captain Hnsby would put IT, Tho upholdcr'
OF 'the modern pronunciation seem entirely ignorant
obvious Of the fact that 81 England have former
ly taken just the liberty that all others OF different
natiOnalities have done with dead Language T. g., We
have pronounced It own living language. II
a Spanlard talks Of Hoollooh, and German If Yoo-
loOs, why may not speak without shame Of julius
any other man, untroubed by unpront able search
, Of heart in regard to the tone prevailing IA the
Augustan eral"